Dec. 25. At his residence at Collymore House, Barbadoes, Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Taylor Popham, Deputy Quarter-Master-General of the WestIndian army.

1824. Jan. 4. At St Vincent, West Indies, Charles Neil Kennedy, Esq. surgeon, late in Pitlorchy, Perthshire.

10. At Glenlee, in Galloway, in the 82d year of her age, Mrs Jean Proudfoot, widow of the late Mr James Hope, Glenlee. She was a most af fectionate wife, an indulgent parent, and a warm and steady friend. Piety the most ardent, yet without austerity,-charity the most unwearied, yet without ostentation,-benevolence the most extensive and disinterested,-and candour the most perfect, yet without partiality, uniformly marked her conduct through life. Though, latterly, less retentive than formerly of the passing occurrences of the day, yet, to the last, her memory continued unimpaired as to those things which concerned her everlasting welfare; and as she lived the life of the righteous," so also her "last end was like his." Her mild unassuming manners, and truly Christian deportment, deservedly endeared her to all who knew her, and the remembrance of her many virtues will be fondly cherished with veneration by her family to the latest period of life.

31. At Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope, MaryAnn Urquhart, wife of John Murray, Esq. surgeon to the forces.

Feb. 29. At Adra, in Spain, Harriet, daughter of the late William Kirkpatrick, Esq. of Conheath.

March 5. On board the ship Alexander, on his passage home from Jamaica, Mr Andrew Marjoribanks, second son of Alexander Marjoribanks, Esq. of Marjoribanks.

At his house, Baxter's Place, Edinburgh, John Gleed, Esq. solicitor of Excise in Scotland.

-At Dundee, Dr Robert Henderson, aged 74. -At Edinburgh, Mr James Donaldson, minister of the Berean Congregation, in the 73d year of his age, and 47th of his ministry.

-In London, the Marquis of Titchfield, eldest son of the Duke of Portland.

- At London, Sir Thomas Bell, late a Sheriff of that city, and Treasurer of the Scottish Hospital.

At the Manse of Morven, in the 79th year of his age, and 50th of his ministry, the Rev. Norman M'Leod, minister of that parish.

7. At Edinburgh, Miss Catherine Kennedy, youngest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Kennedy, minister of St Madoes, Perthshire.

-At the Grove, the seat of his Lordship, after a long indisposition, Thomas Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, Baron Hyde, and a Count of the kingdom of Prussia. He completed his 70th year in December last.-His Lordship is succeeded in his titles by his brother, John Charles Villiers, now Earl of Clarendon.

-At Aberdeen, James Moir, aged 101. He was brother-in-law to the veteran M'Dougal, who supported General Wolfe, after he received his mortal wound, on the plains of Quebec. The wife of James Moir was buried on the 31st ultimo, aged 81; and her husband died within an hour after she had been laid in the grave,

-At Edinburgh, William Ramsay, Esq.

9. At Southampton, in the 48th year of his age, of consumption, the Right Hon. Lord Edward O'Brien, brother to the Marquis of Thomond, and son-in-law to the Duke of Beaufort.

-At Edinburgh, the Hon. Barbara Rollo. -At Paris, the Duke of Cambaceres. He made a considerable figure in the Revolution, and was Second Consul with Bonaparte.

10. At his seat at Easton Lodge, in Essex, the Right Hon. Charles Viscount Maynard, in the 73d year of his age.

At Edinburgh, in the 15th year of her age, Elizabeth Laura Baillie Hamilton, third daughter of the late Rev. Charles Baillie Hamilton, Archdeacon of Cleveland.

-At Largs, in the 68th year of his age, Mr James Cook, civil engineer.

11. In Picardy Place, Edinburgh, in the 80th year of her age, Mrs Isobel Cranstoun, relict of the Rev. James Scott, formerly minister of the gospel at Musselburgh.

11. At Newabbey, George Nicholson, Esq. -At Stranraer, David Stewart, Esq. of Duchra, W. S.

March 11. At Newabbey, Geo. Nicholson, Esq. -At Bellshiel, near Dunse, Mr Thomas Bertram, at the advanced age of 99.

12. At Dumfries, Mr Robert Paul, writer. His horse fell under him about fourteen days before, and he was so much bruised by the fall, that shortly after he was seized with locked jaw, which terminated his existence.

At Edinburgh, Mr Wm. Elder, accountant. At Edinburgh, James Forman, Esq. W. S. -At Edinburgh, Helen Lawrie, wife of James Virtue, merchant.

-At Gayfield Square, Edinburgh, after having given birth to a daughter, Mrs L. Franklin.

- At Brechin, in his 63d year, David Guthrie, Esq. late Provost of that burgh.

13. At Courthill, Thomas Usher, Esq.

13. At Clifton, Bristol, Mrs Sophia Lee, author of the historical novel entitled the " Recess," the comedy of the " Chapter of Accidents," &c.

- Mrs Halliday, relict of the late Rev. Thomas Halliday, minister of Kelton.

14. At Edinburgh, Miss Louisa Hope, a daughter of the late Commissioner Charles Hope, of his Majesty's navy.

15. At the manse of Earlstoun, the Rev. Wm. Shields, aged 71 years. He was 43 years a minister of the Church of Scotland, of which 34 were spent at Westruther, and the remaining nine at Earlstoun, both in Berwickshire.

-At London, Lieutenant James Reid, R. N., eldest son of Sir John Reid, Bart.

19. At No. 5, Buccleuch Place, Mr Wm. Howden, jeweller in Edinburgh.

20. John Aitken, Esq. of Hill of Beath.

At Cromarty, Wm. Swan, Esq. aged 86 years.
The Rev. Robert Smith, minister of Cro-

marty.

-At Auchry, Mrs Cumine, wife of Archibald Cumine of Auchry, Esq.

21. At Streatham Park, in the 55th year of his age, Thomas Harrison, Esq. F.R.S. Honorary Secretary to the Royal Institution and African Association, Commissary to the University of Cambridge, formerly a Fellow of Queen's College, and Chairman of the Adjourned Quarter Sessions for the county of Surrey.

-At Paris, Walter, only son of the Earl of Airly.

At View Park, Burntsfield Links, Archibald, youngest son of Mr Inglis, banker, Edinburgh. -At Edinburgh, Mrs Jean Paton, relict of the Rev. George Paton, LL.D. in her 87th year.

At Edinburgh, Charles Fothringham, Esq. 22. At Laurieston, Edinburgh, Andrew Livingston, Esq. of Grobdale.

-At his house, Lansdowne Place, East Bath, Lieutenant-Colonel Hill, (Royal Marines,) aged upwards of 90 years, one of the oldest officers in his Majesty's service, having served in the reign of King George the Second.

-At Durham, Michael Balfour, Esq. late surgeon in the 8th royal veteran battalion.

25. At Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, Mrs Mary Thomson, wife of Mr James Leechman, merchant.

At her house in Linlithgow, Mrs Watson, widow of James Watson, Esq. of Bridge Castle. -At Edinburgh, Mrs Dickson, widow of Captain Alexander Dickson, late of the royal artillery. 24. At Hobkirk manse, Mrs Jean Scott, wife of the Rev. B. Dickieson, minister of Hobkirk.

Sir G. Chetwynd, Bart. in the 85th year of his age.

25. At the Rolls House, London, the Right Hon. Sir T. Plumer, Master of the Rolls, in the 71st year of his age.

-At No. 6, Dewar Place, Edinburgh, in the 82d year of his age, Lieutenant Alex. M'Kenzie, late of the 9th royal veteran battalion.

26. At Leith, George B. Vair, Esq. merchant, aged 29 years.

-At Linlithgow, Mr Wm. Younger, brewer, in the 32d year of his age.

-At Craigforth House, Miss Callander, 27. At St Andrew's, William Rotheram, Esq. -At Edinburgh, Miss Elizabeth Campbell, aged 80.

28. At Edinburgh, Mr William Gray, merchant. 29. At Marig, island of Harris, Captain Kenneth Campbell, late Paymaster of the Regiment of the Isles.

30. At Rome, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devon

shire, widow of the late Duke, and sister to the present Earl of Bristol, in the 65th year of her age. March 30. At Mavisbank house, Mrs Duncan, of Damside.

-At Dunfermline, Miss Janet Bowes.

31. At his house in the Regent's Park, London, the Right Hon. Lord George Coleraine, in the 73d year of his age. His Lordship was better known as the eccentric Colonel Hanger.

-At Edinburgh, Miss Macdonald, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald, 84th regiment.

-At London, Lieutenant John Wallace, late of the 13th light dragoons.

April 1. At Edinburgh, Mrs Sarah Hamilton, wife of Mr Alex. Hamilton, surgeon, R. N.

2. At York Place, Edinburgh, Jane Emily, second daughter of Dr Gillespie.

-At Williamfield, Mr D. Macdonald, merchant in Leith.

- At Edinburgh, Miss Elizabeth Dickson, daughter of the late David Dickson of Kilbucho, Esq.

At Daftmill, Mrs Walker, of Daftmill, in the 90th year of her age.

3. At Banff, Lieut.-Colonel James Robinson. -At Ayr, Hamilton Douglas Boswell, Esq. of Garallan. Mr Boswell's death was strikingly sudden and unexpected. On the afternoon of Saturday he went out to enjoy his accustomed walkspent the evening and supped with his family in his usual spirits-retired to bed a little before eleven, apparently in perfect health-and in less than a quarter of an hour he was a corpse.

- At Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Alexander Learmonth, Esq.

-At Lathrisk, Alexander, third son of Wm. Johnston, Esq. of Lathrisk.

4. At Edinburgh, Jas. Paterson, Esq. of Carpow. -At his father's house, in the parish of Foveran, near Aberdeen, Mr John Ligerwood, assistant-surgeon to the forces, Ireland.

5. At Muirkirk, Mr Thomas Cunningham, aged 81.

-At Edinburgh, Mrs Ann Knight, widow of Mr Gilbert Mair, jun. writer, Edinburgh.

6. At his apartments in the British Museum, in his 70th year, the Rev. Thomas Maurice, author of " Indian Antiquities," the "Ancient and Modern History of Hindostan," and many other celebrated productions. He was the intimate friend and contemporary of Sir W. Jones, and was patronised by Dr Johnson.

-At Edinburgh, Samuel Douglas, of Netherlaw, Esq.

At Dumbarton Castle, Major-General Ilay Ferrier, Lieutenant-Governor of that garrison, in the 78th year of his age.

-At Burntisland, Mary Jane, only daughter of John Aytoun, Esq. of Inchdairney.

7. Michael Kidston, third son of the Rev. Wm. Kidston, Glasgow.

10. At Edinburgh, Mrs Corbett of Kenmuir, Lanarkshire.

- At Duddingstone House, the Right Hon. Lady Caroline Anne Macdonald of Clanronald, in consequence of a cold caught some days after the birth of her sixth child.

11. At Edinburgh, Mary Ann Leslie Lindesay, daughter of the late Patrick Lindesay, Esq. of Wormistone.

-At Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Mrs Ann Balfour, relict of William Thomas Wishart, Esq. of Foxhall.

12. At Wilton Cottage, Somerset, Lady Elizabeth Farrington, in the 75th year of her age, reliet of General Sir Anthony Farrington, Part. late of Blackheath, Kent.

At Rothesay, the Rev. Dr Archibald M'Lea, minister of that parish, in the 87th year of his age, and 62d of his ministry.

13. At Netherby, Cumberland, Sir Jas. Graham, Bart. aged 62.

At Dalkeith, Mrs Cumming, wife of Dr Cumming.

14. At Edinburgh, David Davidson, eldest son of the late Sir David Davidson of Cantray.

-At Glasgow, Captain Robert Gilmour.

April 4. At Edinburgh, Mrs Fergusson Blair, wife of Adam Fergusson of Woodhil, Esq.

-At Linlithgow, Mrs Helen Margaret Ferrier, wife of Thomas Liston, Esq. Sheriff-Clerk of Linlithgowshire, second daughter of the late MajorGeneral Ferrier.

-At Hampstead, Mary, eldest surviving daughter of the late Sir Alexander Macdonald Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath, Bart.

15. Sutherland Meek, M.D., late Member of the Medical Board at the Presidency of Bombay. 16. At Aberdeen, Charles Donaldson, Esq. ad

vocate.

-At Garth, parish of Fortingall, Margaret Macdougall, relict of Alexander Macdougall, farmer at Garth, in the 103d year of her age. When above a hundred, she thought little of walking from her own house to Weem or Aberfeldy, a distance of seven miles, and returning before breakfast. Last year, she travelled to Drummond Castle, which is thirty miles distant, and returned next night. She was the genealogist of the district; and her retentive memory made her the living chronicle of past events. When asked if she remembered the year 1745, her uniform answer was, "Oh, that was only a yesterday's bu siness; the Prince's year, I was a married wife, and the mother of a family."

17. At Edinburgh, Mary Anne, the youngest daughter of John Elphinston, Esq. of the Hon. East-India Company's service.

- At York Place, Edinburgh, Lieut.-Colonel Gerrard, of Rochsoles, formerly Adjutant-General of the army in Bengal.

18. After a short illness, Edward Jones, Bard to the Prince of Wales.-Mr Jones was a native of Merionethshire, in North Wales.

19. At Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Macdonald, spouse of Robert Scott Moncrieff, Esq.

-At Edinburgh, Wm. Carlyle, Esq. advocate. -At Bath, Capt. Alexander Nisbett, R. N. 20. At Edinburgh, Mrs Henrietta Bowman, wife of Mr William Alexander, Depute-clerk of Teinds

21. At Glasgow, Cecilia Murray Stevenson, wife of Mr Andrew Grant, merchant; and, on the 18th current, Cecilia, their infant daughter.

-At his Lordship's residence in Bath, Richard, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, in his 87th year. 22. At Maybole, James Ferguson, Esq. late of Littleton.

24. At Rothesay, James Malcolm Noble, Esq. -Lately. At his house, Clerk-Street, Mr John Ross, late painter, Edinburgh, in the 62d year of his age.

At Bloomfield, near Newport, Mrs Anderson, aged 100, widow of William Anderson of Foxhall, Esq.

At the Bay of Balui, Mississippi, Cady Lafontaine, aged 137.

-On his estate in South Russia, the Counsellor of State, Von Kapnist, aged 68, one of the most celebrated Russian poets of the present day.

-At Chelsea, Robert Hall, M. D. late Surgeon to the Forces, a descendant of the ancient Border family of the Halls of Newbiggen, and greatgrandson of Henry Hall of Haughhead, the ce lebrated Covenanter, who fought at Bothwell Bridge, Drumclog, &c.

-At Pwllcornel, near Bronwydd, Carmarthenshire, at the advanced age of 106 years, William Matthias. He retained his faculties to the last.

At Rome, his Eminence Cardinal Gonsalvi. This great minister, who had governed Rome for nearly 23 years, and to whom Pius VII. was warmly attached, fell a victim to his long and dreadful sufferings, which he bore with admirable fortitude and true Christian patience and piety.

-In his 80th year, the Rev. Dr Ford, late Or dinary in Newgate.

- In the 73d year of his age, the Rev. Richard Thomas Gough, uncle of Lord Calthorpe.

-At her son's house, 11, Society, Mrs James Brewster, aged 74.

-At her house at Chelsea, the Lady Caroline Anne Brudenell Bruce, eldest sister of the Marquis of Aylesbury.

-At London, Luke White, Esq. M. P. for the county of Leitrim.

DR JOHNSON has somewhere said, that life has few things better than being rapidly whirled along in a postchaise; doubtless, a pleasant enough sensation of its kind, provided you are travelling on a visit to the Lakes, or to meet your mistress by express appointment, or to draw your rents, not previously swallowed up by a mortgage, or to vote at a contested election, or to take your seat in Parliament for the first time, or, in short, to realize any object of amusement, profit, fame, or ambition, upon which, peradventure, you have set your heart: for, without some such concomitant purpose, it is not easy to conceive any thing surpass ing delectable in abstract locomotion in the mere circumstance of "being whirled," even in the fastest going breakneck in the kingdom. Gray had a correcter notion of the true sources of pleasurable sensation, the highest, purest, and calmest of which he pronounced to consist in lolling all day long on a couch, and reading a novel; and had he lived till our day, he would unquestion ably have added" by the Author of Waverley!" The serene and tranquil delight which flows from this luxurious indulgence, at once of sense and spirit, and which the accomplished poet, just named, thought no bad emblem of the joys of Elysium itself, we have now so frequently tasted, that "the appetite has grown by what it fed on ;" pam

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pered into fastidiousness by the iteration of enjoyment, our imaginations nevertheless pander to our desires, and excite unspeakable longings for the period when we shall again be invited to partake of this ambrosial banquet, to revel unrestrained amidst the fairy scenes and gorgeous magnificence conjured up by the mighty enchanter,to converse with the master-spirits of the olden-time, mingle in their councils, share in their adventures, catch the contagion of their sentiments, participate in their hopes and fears, or sympathise with their misfortunes,-or, descending to humbler life, to encounter the beau-ideal of those men, whose manners, language, and conduct, are so indissolubly associated with all that we love and cherish, in country, kindred, and home.

Perhaps some may think there is a large intermixture of exaggeration in all this, and that, having once got into the clouds, we have fairly lost sight of the veritable world; that, like Rousseau, floating in his skiff, with his face upturned to heaven, we have launched into the regions of reverie, and feel a repugnance to awake from the dream we had been indulging. Be it remembered, however, that mankind are naturally idolaters of the past,-invincibly prone to cast "many a longing, lingering look behind" to the great events and illustrious names which have figured in the history of their country, and

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over which Time has shed his hallowing influence; that this retrospective direction of national feeling not only affords the purest and most unmingled pleasure, but tends to elevate the tone of general sentiment, and beget aspirations of a higher order than can ever be engendered among the meaner men and baser passions of the everyday crowd; and that it is precisely because the author before us embodies in his pages the very soul and spirit of the past, and causes, as it were, to pass before our eyes those events in our national story, of which we have heard our forefathers speak with rapture,-because he so often touches, with a master-hand, those chords to which every Scottish bosom at least must vibrate, because his painting is not merely natural, but Nature herself, that his works possess a charm potent enough to subdue every heart, and to entitle them to the rank which has long since been accorded them,-namely, that of the noblest works of fiction which any age or country has produced. No author, in fact, ever acquired so great a dominion over the public mind, or main tained his ascendancy so long; and the marvel is, that his first freshness is still unimpaired,-his fancy unrelaxed, his vigour undecayed, his riches unexhausted. His works grow up under his hand without effort, and are given forth without elaboration. He neglects much to which humbler minds must scrupulously attend; but what he achieves could only be performed by himself. In this view he has often been compared to Shakespeare-and with justice.

But we must take leave of these generalities, and come at once to the subject before us-" Redgauntlet." Taken as a whole, this is a most unequal production, and is liable to an objection peculiar to itself; which is, that in course of his work, the author appears to have changed the plan on which he originally set out, and to have adopted another, certainly better in itself, but rather awkwardly and clumsily introduced. The first volume, which is filled with the supposed correspondence of Darsie Latimer and Ailan Fairford, naturally leads us to expect that the author has resolved to tell his story

after the manner of Richardson, namely, by an interchange of letters between the prominent characters; a mode of which Sir Walter Scott has, in the most luminous and convincing style, pointed out the improbabilities and disadvantages, in his admirable Life of the English Novelist; but just when we have, in some degree, become reconciled to this fancy, with all its provoking but necessary minuteness of explanation, and when the story has just advanced far enough, to give us such an interest in the fortunes of the actors as to render us indifferent to the fashion in which we are made acquainted with their proceedings, the epistolary form is abandoned, and we are introduced, in the second volume, to what bears to be "narrative," but which, after all, proves to be a piece of patch-work, partly composed of the journals of two of the characters, interspersed with details by the author, to which the designation of "narrative" can alone be properly applied. For our own parts, till we opened the second volume, we never for a moment doubted, that, though the epistolary form had been adopted, we had been perusing a narrative so far at least, and that the story was to be told-as Richardson had so admirably though diffusely told his-in the same form throughout. Now, our objection to this alteration of plan is not technical, and brought forward merely to keep up the credit of the critical character for a certain aptitude in finding, or making faults where they are not to be found; we protest firmly against so unfair and unjust an inference: but we did feel, in the perusal, as if we had taken up a new work; fresh explanations and statements become necessary by the change, disturbed the sequence of the story; and we found ourselves in a situation, not unlike that of a man who, sailing down a stream, very much to his own comfort and satisfaction, suddenly descries a breaker, and is forced incontinent to land his skiff, carry it on his shoulders past 'the obstruction, re-launch it in the smooth waters below, and thus recommence his voyage anew. We confidently appeal to every reader of "Redgauntlet," whether we have